BP officials instead of the customary recreational fishermen.The AP analysis showed that, taken together, the 39 Gulf Coast counties and parishes in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida actually saw a modest increase in year-over-year sales tax revenue following the spill. However, this is a tale of booms canceling out busts,dunk sb of selective prosperity, and of temporary relief that has done little to assuage anxiety about the future.Using year to year changes in the amount of taxes collected by retailers.

Given the uncertainty, workers and residents just don't want to spend money, Dugal said.In nearby St. Mary's Parish, state sales tax revenue dropped 9.9 percent in May and 3.2 percent in June. nike air max At St. Mary Seafood & Marina, sales of fish, crabs and crawfish dropped by a third as out-of-state buyers grew worried about whether Gulf seafood was safe to eat.

"Whenever all of the pictures of the birds in oil came out, that is when the sales started to drop," said owner Daniel Edgar.

Of all the Gulf parishes and counties, the biggest boom has been in Plaquemines, where oil from the well about 50 miles offshore first touched the U.S. mainland April 29. Other oil-affected Louisiana parishes saw a sales tax boost in June, too: St. Bernard 15 percent, St. Tammany 14 percent and LaFourche 9.6 percent, according to cheap handbags the AP analysis. Sharon Couture, 60, runs a convenience store in Yscloskey, a tiny fishing village in eastern St. Bernard. "They come in all the time," she said of cleanup workers.

The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.The worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has spurred something of an economic boom in some communities where cleanup operations are based, an Associated Press analysis has shown.But BP's oil spill has delivered a double whammy to areas too far away from nike sb the cleanup to serve as a staging ground for masses of workers, but close enough to experience severe losses in tourism, fishing and drilling.Sales tax revenue in Gulf states showed a stark difference.

"They buy beer, energy drinks, cigarettes, that sort of thing. "I'd say I'm about breaking even because of them. The fishermen used to come in and spend $40, $50. These guys come in and spend $5, $10. There's just more of them." But she doesn't know how quickly the fishermen will return, and she is fearful. "I told my husband if BP wholesale handbags pulls out, we'll just close up and leave. We won't make enough to live on then," she said. Plaquemines President Billy Nungesser - a frequent and vocal critic of the spill response.

"People don't want to be in an area that has problems like this," said Betty Bernard, owner of Betty's RV Park in the Vermilion community of Abbeville, which has lost half its business this summer from last year. "The news media has it that we have oil in our backyards, and we don't."The economic impact of nike dunks the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers and sent more than 200 million gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico hasn't yet been fully calculated. BP already has paid out $399 million in claims to residents.